This
is a quick reference list (some data may be misleading for your specific case). Note: Sometimes there's only one way you can be sure of the exact purpose of an obscure or rarely used partition type: You must locate, examine and gather info about the utility that created the partition and/or ask the person who
actually set up the disk what they're using that partition for!

00 : -- Should NOT be used in an actual table entry! It does not
indicate an unknown type, but rather an empty entry; in which case, all other fieldsin that 16-byte entry should be
zero-filled as well.

Although there are 253 possible partition type
values (05h and 0Fh having been acknowledged as special use cases), you'll almost never see any but a handful of these being used today.
This is primairly due to the popularity of the IBM/Microsoft operating systems (FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS), and the many flavors of Unix (such as BSD) and all
the Linux distributions, which have mainly settled on using type 83h for all their file systems; apart from swap partitions, which are
type 82h.